The Governor of Osun State, Rauf
Aregbesola, has has given reasons Nigeria is doomed and cannot develop now.

Aregbesola said the country was
far from development because its economy was built on a very weak production
arrangement.

According to the governor, this
had made Nigerians to become lazy, especially after the nation’s independence.

He explained further that
Nigerians now lived on rents from oil, which was discovered in commercial
quantity shortly before it became an independent state.

His position was part of a
statement made available to reporters in Osogbo on Tuesday by his media
adviser, Sola Fasure.

According to Fasure, Aregbesola
said this while featuring on a live television programme in the state.

He said, “Our nation today is
built on a very weak production arrangement. We all live on rent from oil,
especially post-independence Nigeria that is run on commission from oil,
whereas our nation from the colonial period before the military interregnum was
run on the productivity of our people.

“Until we are back to production
and productivity, we will just be emotional, sentimental and rhetorical in our
analysis on how to escape the worrisome situation we are in now.

“Though oil revenue will help to
jump – start the process, but it can’t be the financial basis for our economic
development.

“A nation that cannot produce
what it consumes is doomed. Therefore, we must see productivity as panacea for
our socio-economic challenges.

“It is inherited by a section of
our people who are in the most vibrant stage of their lives and are resisting
and rebelling against an economic situation that has put them in a miserable
state that they don’t even know how to escape from.”